all very well

Idioms  

1. All right or quite true as far as it goes. For example, It's all very well for Jane to drop out, but how will we find enough women to make up a team? This idiom, first recorded in 1853, generally precedes a question beginning with “but,” as in the example. Also see well and good.

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all very well

There’s a spacecraft and a robot and pirate references, all catnip for sci-fi and dystopia lovers and all very well done.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

Demos were all very well, but Dean knew they could be faked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

One Labour MP told me earlier this month: "It's all very well to say wait for the locals, but that's my activist base I'm sending into the gunfire. I can't lose all my councillors."

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025

This, after all, very well may be the most stacked Huskies draft class yet.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2024

It was all very well having a rule about not laughing at Toby, but it wasn’t always easy to stick to it.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder